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2. Read the following passage:
“Ravi went for a trip to the lake. He hired a boat and spent some time in the lake. He saw Sunil and Mohit
in a boat. Their boat had a motor and they went very fast. Ravi rowed his boat as fast as he could. But he
could not reach them. So he came back to the shore and had some tea and went back to his room to rest.”
Now complete the table.
Tally marks Frequency
1-letter words
2-letter words
3-letter words
4-letter words
5-letter words
Represent the data in a pie chart.

Values and Life Skills

Observe the pie chart given in the figure about inmates in a hostel and answer the following question:
(a) What does this pie chart depict?
(b) Which language is spoken by the majority of inmates?
(c) If the total number of students is 540, how many speak Punjabi?
(d) If 33 inmates speak other languages, how many speak Hindi?
(e) What is the ratio of the number of inmates who speak Tamil to the
number of inmates who speak Punjabi?
What kind of behaviour should you have towards your hostel mates
and the people speaking different languages?

Some NCERT Textbook Questions

1. The following line graph shows the yearly sales figures for a manufacturing company.
(a) What were the sales in (i) 2002 (ii) 2006?
(b) What were the sales in (i) 2003 (ii) 2005?
(c) Compute the difference between the sales in 2002 and 2006.
(d) In which year was there the greatest difference between the sales as compared to its previous years?

Y

12

10
Sales (in ` crores) 8

6

4

2
X
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Years
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